[Adium-devl] Thoughts on a summary since the beta so people stop asking us where 1.0 is AND should we set a cutoff date for a release, even with bugs?

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

>    Also, we've been running the beta since July, we had 20 alphas
> before that. Things are almost there, but every time we release a beta
> something new and exciting comes up. Plus the 1.0 beta fixes a crash
> that's been in .89.1 on intel. Should we just set a date and  
> release it
> at some point so we can move past it? If we did I propose Feb 1st.  
> This
> gives us almost a month to shore up anything that's really  
> atrocious. I
> know we generally don't set release dates, but maybe we need it  
> this time.

I think we can do sooner than Feb 1.  I'd like to fix the Talk  
everyone-shows-up-on-the-buddy-list regression (which I strongly  
suspect was created when switching to using Talk's own roster system  
around gaim [17993]) (#6070)... and the other blist.xml ticket seems  
like a major problem, though I can't reproduce it (#5901). I'm going  
to look at the Talk issues this afternoon.  I'd really appreciate  
steps to reproduce -- on an account which someone capable of adding  
debug logging and hunting down the problem can access.

AIM file transfers still fail for some users when they have to go  
through the proxy server, with an 'unknown proxy error' which  
displays as simply being a cancel on one side and no response on the  
other.  That'd be great to fix before releasing... Graham, do you  
have the data on that already or need it?  I believe edr took some  
packet traces of it happening to him at one point. (#5932).

There are, of course, other crashes still extant.  I sent a  
reasonably comprehensive list of the libgaim ones I've seen in the  
crash reporter to adium-devl and gaim-devl yesterday.  None of these  
besides the AIM ones which Graham has fixed were new to libgaim 2.0.0  
so far as I'm aware, so they aren't regressions and don't play into  
blocking a release. Fixes would be fantastic, but the problems are  
there in 0.89.1, too.

Beyond those three, infrastructure is in place as much as it's going  
to be.  Some press preparedness would be cool -- for example, I'm  
working on an interview with macgadget.de about Adium 1.0 which  
they'll be translating into German and posting in both languages to  
go with our release when it happens.

Cheers,
Evan


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